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What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you.
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,207 Views)
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DinoBear
Aug 24 2015, 03:47 PM
Isn't like it was impossible for it to be feathered (AFAIK anyways).
Let's see... Monolophosaurus was a Tetanuran. A basal Tetanuran, outside both Avetheropoda and Megalosauroidea. So depending on where you put the origin of feathers, it is quite likely it did have them.
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Exactly. Depends on where you put the origin of feathers indeed.
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And lets face it, before ceratosauria or avetheropoda we have no idea of what theropods looked like, for all we know they could've looked like ANYTHING. Well, not really anything but w/e so getting angry for the presence/lack of feathers on them is pointless.
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Well, we can at least make a fair assumption that our most basal theropod skin available and our multiple sauropod skin specimens suggest a likely featherless basal saurischian (ie. the most recent common ancestor of Carnotaurus and Saltasaurus) regardless.

Just throwing that out there.
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Aug 25 2015, 04:59 PM
Well, we can at least make a fair assumption that our most basal theropod skin available and our multiple sauropod skin specimens suggest a likely featherless basal saurischian (ie. the most recent common ancestor of Carnotaurus and Saltasaurus) regardless.

Just throwing that out there.
No we can't, we have no evidence to assume that these groups haven't lost their fuzz later in their evolution, im not saying thats right, but its a solid possibility, Carnotaurus and saltasaurus are still far up there in their own respective evolutionary trees, and as we know happened with ornithischians, its possible that these latter taxa lost the feathers their once more basal ancestors could've had.

What i mean is, when it comes to basal (specially jurassic and triassic) dinosaurs in general, we just cannot know and don't have enough evidence to say anything, so any guess we make here is just as likely as the other.
Edited by Yi Qi, Aug 25 2015, 05:28 PM.
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The answer is almost so dumb as the question.
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The answer is worse. At least that question looks like a joke which gives me hope for our species.
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You know, Yahoo answers is wretchedly full of trolls, often masquerading as serious answers.
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Ignacio
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What a dumb answer. Everyone knows that Pterodactyl was a wyvern.
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who answered? David Peters?
ok that might have been a little rude on my part.
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My question is,

Who the hell thinks a Pterodactyl was a wyvern?
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Aug 26 2015, 04:00 PM
My question is,

Who the hell thinks a Pterodactyl was a wyvern?
Cough* http://ark.gamepedia.com/Pteranodon Cough*
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babehunter1324
Aug 26 2015, 04:03 PM
Narukota
Aug 26 2015, 04:00 PM
My question is,

Who the hell thinks a Pterodactyl was a wyvern?
Cough* http://ark.gamepedia.com/Pteranodon Cough*
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Pteranodon wyvernus

..Oh my poor eyes..
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babehunter1324
Aug 26 2015, 04:03 PM
Narukota
Aug 26 2015, 04:00 PM
My question is,

Who the hell thinks a Pterodactyl was a wyvern?
Cough* http://ark.gamepedia.com/Pteranodon Cough*
That is literally perfect.
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